Received: 18 May 2005 Revised: 19 June 2005 Accepted: 9 January 2006 Abstract The current highly dynamic business environment requires businesses to be agile. Business agility is the ability to swiftly and easily change businesses and business processes beyond the normal level of flexibility to effectively manage unpredictable external and internal changes. This study reports on a crossindustry...

The aim of this article is to discuss the merits of organizational learning agility as it relates to organizational leadership, organizational culture, and the mindset and behavior of the organization. An extensive definition of agility and its importance is presented as a precursor to individual learner agility, leadership agility, and organizational agility. This paper outlines the characteri...

OBJECTIVE Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is a commonly recognized condition in athletes characterized by activity-related hip pain and stiffness, which if left untreated can progress to hip osteoarthritis. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of symptomatic FAI on performance in young athletes based on the hypothesis that athletes with FAI would show deficits in performance comp...

Information technology is generally considered an enabler of a firm’s agility. A typical premise is that greater IT investment enables a firm to be more agile. However, it is not uncommon that IT can also hinder and sometimes even impede organizational agility. We propose and theorize this frequently observed but understudied IT–agility contradiction by which IT may enable or impede agility. We...

Agility is all the rage. Across the landscape, businesses request agility as a deliverable, make claims that they are agile, and (some) go so far as to assert they can provide agility to other corporate entities outside of their own sphere of influence. The challenge before us as a Systems Engineering Community is that (Enterprise) Agility, although well documented throughout engineering litera...

the electronic industry suffers a rapid changing and highly rival environment. thus, firms have an essential need to strive for acquiring the competitive advantage. strategy organizational agility (soa) is a tool which enables to assist firms to attain the competitive advantage. therefore, this study benchmarks the core competencies from a case study within the supply chain network and establis...

agility has an undeniable effect on organization success inthe present changing markets, and information technology (it) is a majorfacilitating factor in business activities of organizations nowadays,as about more than a half of present organizations capitals is based onit. therefore, assessment of the it application level and organizationalagility, and study of the effect of application of it ...

Study purpose. Goalkeepers in futsal require fast movements to anticipate the ball that is heading toward goal. Therefore, reaction of goalkeeper very necessary improve quality game. Materials and methods. This research experimental conducted using factorial design a quantitative approach. In this research, researchers use treatment with imagery exercises, audiovisual visual methods, measuring ...